How to calculate your daily Weight Watchers Pro Points Allowance?
I am not specifically following the Weight Watchers program, I am trying to lose weight on a budget.
If you have the money I do suggest you join their program as the extra support and knowledge they can offer you is incredible.
That being said I like to buy the WW magazine and to use their recipes effectively it helps if you understand your daily points allowance.
Here is how to work our your daily points allowance, the minimum points you should consume in a day is 29 if you are not losing 500 gms a week you can then reduce it to 26, however if you are consistently losing more than 1 kg a week you should increase it until you find the happy medium, that creates a safe weight loss for sustained loss. As always you should consult your doctor before undertaking any weight loss program.
Here is how to do the calculate your ProPoints daily allowance for yourself. You need to add these numbers together.
1. Is based on your gender.
Female - 2 points
Male - 8 points
Nursing Females - 10 points
2. Involves your age
17-26 4 points
27-37 3 points
38-47 2 points
48-57 1 point
and if you are over 58 its 0 points due to how your metabolism slows as you age.
3. Based on how much activity you do in a day you get more points, The levels include the option of including daily excersize, remember if you include daily excersize here not to count it on a daily basis. I have chosen to only calculate it based on my activity at work.
Heavy activity, manual labour or working out more than 30 mins a day - 6 pooints
Moderate activity, such as walking all day, or 30 mins of exercise a day - 4 points
Low Activity such as working in an office, moving around on a semi-regular basis - 2 points
Inactivity - 0 points
4. Is based on your height.
155cm or 5'1" or shorter - 0 points
155cm-178cm or 5'1" to 5'10" - 1 point
178cm or taller or 5'10" or taller - 2 points
5. Based on your current weight
The easiest way to work this out is to use an online calculator to convert your weight in kg to pounds, divide your weight in pounds by 10 and use this number.
Add them all together and that is your daily ProPoints allowance.
My daily allowance worked out at 28 points a day so I am allowing 29
My partner Andrew is male so allowed 36 points a day.
Tata lovelies, I am off to return my emails.
Whats your daily allowance?
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